A good sixty percent of our current problems can be traced to dear ol WW. Most of the rest can be traced to LBJ and FDR. But they only built on the foundation that Wilson laid.
It is an interesting area to study.
Agree
So it is somewhat disingenuous to lay all of the blame at Woody's feet. The Democrat Party has always harbored a hatred of this nation, and embraced the communist structure, because they could use the rhetoric to create divisions. The main reason for that was to secure power for themselves. The poor & the assumed support they got from Democrat Party was a well calculated scam to target them to align with the Democrat Party. They realized that there will always be more lower & middle class citizens in any nation, including this nation. The support they enjoyed from these two classes allowed them obtain & grow their personal powers. It also helped them hold on to that power during & after the great depression for many decades afterwards. The Republicans retained the power of the presidency, because they seemed to grow the economy, which in turn gave more resources to the Democrat Party to dole out to their supporters.
I think JFK created a situation that really provided more power to the Democrat Party, when he gave federal government workers the ability to unionize. This allowed the Democrats to place people in positions of government work that were loyal to the Democrat Party, and they held positions of power in their own right that allowed them to thwart any Republican Administration.
In 1947 the CIA was created that not only had immense powers, but also had the power to do things with little to no oversight. JFK, I believe, realized what a mistake he made with the Unionization of the federal government, and was looking into how he could rein in the CIA. Were they the ones who took him out as a result? Hard to say, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me.
One thing is for certain, and that is the government has been seized by people whose only concern is grabbing & maintaining control that allows them to steal from the treasury, and additionally enrich themselves with their insider information in the stock market. Money equates to more power to wield. This affords them to ensure protection from the very laws they put in place to lord upon the citizens as needed, or just to target citizens who disagree with them, while insulating themselves. In short, it's nothing but a tyrannical from of control by a criminal enterprise, and it has been a Democrat Party goal for decades upon decades.